Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 06:38:35 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: * 4 converted to << 2 for networking code |
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:48:59 +0100 From: antirez <antirez@invece.org>
The attached patch converts many occurences of '* 4' in the networking code (often used to convert in bytes the TCP data offset and the IP header len) to the faster '<< 2'.
The compiler does this for you, check the assembler it outputs.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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